13 "If you turn back your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure[1] on my holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight and the holy day of the Lord honorable; if you honor it, not going your own ways, or seeking your own pleasure,[2] or talking idly;[3] 14 then you shall take delight in the Lord, and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth;[4] I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken."
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Isaiah 58:13-14
Commentary on Isaiah 58:13-14
(Read Isaiah 58:13-14)
The sabbath is a sign between God and his professing people; his appointing it is a sign of his favour to them; and their observing it is a sign of their obedience to him. We must turn from travelling on that day; from doing our pleasure on that holy day, without the control and restraint of conscience; or from indulging in the pleasures of sense. On sabbath days we must not follow our callings, or our pleasures. In all we say and do, we must put a difference between this day and other days. Even in Old Testament times the sabbath was called the Lord's day, and is fitly called so still; and for a further reason, it is the Lord Christ's day, Revelation 1:10. If we thus remember the sabbath day to keep it holy, we shall have the comfort and profit of it, and have reason to say, It is good to draw near to God.